Marcel Knudsen
Articles by Marcel Knudsen:
Mondrian, the City, and the Birth of Abstract Art
in Issue 3 | Nature and Its Enemies (Apr 2011)« general revulsion against green and growth » - the city as motif and ideology - walls of buildings and the throng of humanity - freedom from drawing Perseus and alpine ruins - an assault on natural beauty - « whatever is capricious and twisted in nature » - as we descend into a world of lines, boxes, and rectangles
Juries and Democratic Legitimacy
in Issue 2 | Breaking the Law (Mar 2011)communists and foreigners on trial - juries represented a form of local resistance - « the very palladium of free government » - jury nullification - grounds for a mistrial - the romantic ideal of the jury